deterrence
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- n a negative motivational influence
- n a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- n the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
- Walls aside, what Israel sorely misses is the capacity to strike fear into its neighbors, deterrence.
- They want to feel confident that deterrence works the other way and that they could retaliate effectively against an American attack on them.
- They decided to revise the section of the first draft that labeled deterrence "marginally justifiable.